last revised 16 June 2014

TABLE 3:
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GEMSTONE MINES

Miscellaneous notes

Mines are numbered and ordered from north to
south. All mines are plotted on the
accompanying maps. Coordinates for the
approximate mine centers are based on the WGS 84 datum and correspond with locations visible in Google Earth.

Mine age and size are given in parentheses after the
mine location. Abbreviations for age are: Paleo = Palaeolithic, Neo
= Neolithic, Pd = Predynastic, ED = Early
Dynastic, OK = Old Kingdom, 1IP = First Intermediate Period, MK
= Middle Kingdom, 2IP = Second Intermediate Period, NK = New
Kingdom, 3IP = Third Intermediate Period, LP = Late Period, Pt
= Ptolemaic, R = Roman, B = Byzantine or Late Roman, and Is
= Islamic. Other abbreviations include: OK:4 = Fourth Dynasty of the Old
Kingdom, OK/MK = Old Kingdom and/or Middle Kingdom, and NK-R = New
Kingdom through Roman Period. Size corresponds to the maximum dimension
of an area of mine workings or the cumulative maximum dimensions for multiple areas
of workings within a single mine. Three size classes are recognized: small (<100 m), medium (100-1000
m), and large (>1000 m).